Seventy

/Mimi/The first thing I felt was warmth.Not sunlight though the room was hazy with it but the solid, living warmth of someone beside me.For a few seconds, I didn’t move. I just lay there, half-buried in soft sheets, breathing in the faint scent of skin and cologne that didn’t belong to me. My head felt heavy, my body deliciously sore, and my memory… blurry.Then it hit me.Last night.The dare.The stranger.Ethan.My eyes flew open.He was there lying next to me, propped on one elbow, watching me with a look that made my pulse stumble. The early light poured through the blinds, tracing the outline of his bare shoulders, the quiet calm in his expression.“Good morning,” he said, voice rough with sleep.For a moment, I could only stare. “You’re real.”He smiled faintly. “You sound surprised.”“I kind of am,” I admitted, pulling the blanket up a little higher. “Usually, when people say ‘crazy night,’ it doesn’t end with them in a hotel room with a man they met in a lobby.”Ethan chuc

Last Updated : 2025-10-18

Seventy-one

/Mimi/The sunlight was far too judgmental for someone who’d made every questionable decision possible in less than twelve hours.I trudged up the stairs to my apartment, still in last night’s clothes, hair looking like I’d wrestled a tornado and lost. My heels dangled from my fingers, and my brain buzzed with that post-party fog where everything felt like a dream.Or in my case, a dare gone way too right.The second I pushed the door open, I was ambushed by sound.“MIMI!”Lila practically flew off the couch, followed closely by Tasha and Rina, each of them looking like they’d been camped out waiting for breaking news. My coffee table was littered with half-empty wine glasses, popcorn, and a phone charger someone had clearly been using to track me like a missing person.“Oh my God,” Rina gasped dramatically. “You’re alive! We thought we’d have to file a missing person’s report!”Tasha crossed her arms. “No, we thought she was having too much fun to pick up her phone.”I blinked at the

Last Updated : 2025-10-19

Seventy-two

/Mimi/It had been four days.Four days of pretending I wasn’t replaying every single moment from that night the teasing smiles, the way he’d said my name like it was his favorite word, the ridiculous breakfast that felt more like a date than a one-night mistake.Four days of my friends sending me “accidental” pictures of random Ethans they found online.Four days of silence from the real one. At this point I was wishing I collected his number or gave him mine at least.By the time Saturday rolled around, I had convinced myself that I’d moved on. I deserved caffeine, a pastry, and a day where I didn’t think about his stupid perfect grin.So naturally, that was the exact moment the universe decided to laugh at me.I stepped into Bean Scene, my favorite little café cozy, warm, the kind of place where the baristas knew your order and your heartbreak. I was halfway to the counter when I saw him.Ethan.Sitting by the window, casual as ever, one hand around a mug, the other scrolling his p

Last Updated : 2025-10-19

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